About The Author
Christine Swanberg has published several books of poetry: Tonight on This Late Road, (Erie St., 1984). Invisible String (Erie St., 1990), Bread Upon the Waters (UW:Whitewater, 1990), Slow Miracle (Lake Shore, 1992), The Tenderness of Memory (Plainview Press, 1995), The Red Lacquer Room (Chiron Press, 2001), and Who Walks Among the Trees with Charity (2005), and The Alleluia Tree from Puddin’head Press. Hundreds of her poems appear in anthologies such as Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Travel; I am Becoming the Woman I’ve Wanted; Jane’s Stories; Key West: an Anthology; and Still Going Strong and journals such as Lilipoh, Spoon River Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Casa de Cinco Hermanas, The Avocet, Chiron, Kansas Quarterly, Creative Woman, Earth’s Daughters, Sow’s Ear, Wind and many others.
She received the Rockford Area Arts Council Lawrence Gloyd Award for Community Impact. Earlier awards include the YWCA Award for the Arts and the Womanspace Womanspirit Award. She has received numerous grants through the Rockford Area Arts Council. Poet’s Market featured a full-length interview with her. She has contributed chapters to Women on Poetry and Writing After Retirement. After winning the Poetswest invitation to read at the Frye Museum in 2000, she has been a regular poetry presenter in various venues in the Pacific Northwest as well as WSER radio there. She has received numerous awards for her poetry throughout the years.
A writing teacher in public schools, colleges, museums, and The Clearing, and mentor for forty years, Christine’s students have been successful. Christine has had residencies at Centrum Center for the Arts in Port Townsend, WA. She has recently given readings in Sedona AZ, which featured a full-length article in Kudos Magazine, Taos NM, and many bookstores, libraries, and community organizations throughout the country as well as NPR/WNIU.
Christine holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Rockford College and Northern Illinois University. She had a thirty year teaching career. She has a gallery in her home, The Prints and the Poet, where she has workshops, readings, and displays the work of her photographer husband, Jeffrey Swanberg.
Christine’s publications, readings, radio presentations, editorial experience, collaborations, and other public presentations cast a wide net. She is public poet with the ability to create poems that are both accessible and lyrical. Her writing is meant to be a shared rather than strictly personal adventure.
She loves gardening, day trips, singing with community choruses, swimming, walking on the beach, vintage restoration and traveling with her husband of 45 years, Jeffrey.